Iglesia de Santa Catalina Mártir de Alejandría (monument)
Santa Catalina Mártir de Alejandría is more than a parish church in Tacoronte: it is the municipal “iglesia matriz,” the spiritual centre from which the town’s identity is shaped. The church is a bien de interés cultural, with monument status granted in 2016. Inside, you can see how the building grew in stages. The present temple, with its three naves and a church tower set out as a guiding presence, was built on an earlier hermitage raised by the first settlers. The church is considered founded in 1545, and in 1550 a decision was made to pull down the original hermitage to create a proper church body. The altar mayor honours the town’s patron: Santa Catalina Mártir de Alejandría, represented by a sculpture by José Miguel Luján Pérez, which replaced an older carved stone image. …
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